Choke-Proof Food That Tastes Like the Real Thing
In Japan, where more people die each year from choking than in traffic accidents, mush is getting a high-tech treatment.
Here’s a grim fact: According to the diaper maker Unicharm, in Japan, adult diapers now outsell baby diapers. That’s because a quarter of the country’s population is 65 or older. By 2060, that proportion will hit 40 percent.
What adjustments have to be made when so many people grow old simultaneously? To take one example, after, an autonomous bus intended for use in rural areas, where Japan’s shrinking pains have . Other tweaks include slowing down escalators and equipping shopping carts with magnifying glasses.
